All Integrated care articles – Page 86
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HSJ KnowledgeCan councils have a role in commissioning support?
CCGs will soon expect real choice in the support market
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HSJ KnowledgeThe impact of the better care fund on CCGs explained
Diverting billions into integrated care has huge implications
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NewsAnalysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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NewsMinisters: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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NewsMPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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NewsNo integration pioneers win 'accelerator' status
NHS England has reneged on its plan to give a designated “integration pioneer” area special status as a centre of best practice in the use of its £260m technology fund.
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NewsMiliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere is the evidence for promoting integrated care?
We are not measuring the impact on patients
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NewsExclusive: Cash penalties axed for care fund failure
The Department of Health has scrapped plans to withhold money from areas that fail to deliver performance improvements through joint commissioning with local authorities.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy wait to make psychiatric interventions?
Integrate liaison psychiatry into community care
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HSJ KnowledgeA lawyer's view of health and social care integration
How to ensure smooth care coordination
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HSJ PartnersWhat we can learn from Canada about integrated care
Taking an integrated regional approach
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NewsExclusive: Councils boost care fund pools
Several councils are planning to pool their entire adult care budget with the NHS in one of the biggest boosts to the integration of care between the two sectors to date, it has emerged.
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working
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HSJ KnowledgeA multitalented approach to delivering community care
All staff can become holistic practitioners
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HSJ LocalCouncil takes back mental health service
Norfolk County Council is to take its social care service for working age adults with mental health problems back under its direct control after shortcomings emerged in the service which was run by a mental health trust.
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HSJ LocalIntegrated care pioneer voted out by GPs
The clinical commissioning group leader who fronted an ambitious attempt to introduce integrated outcomes based contracts has lost his place on the body’s board following a vote by GPs.
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NewsOxfordshire CCG compromises on controversial contracting plan
Commissioners have prepared a set of compromises to one of the most ambitious integrated contracting plans after a Department of Health review recommended much closer collaboration with local providers.